‘Probably Today Something Will Happen’ Trump Warns on Price
For a few days now President Donald Trump has been saying he is “not happy” that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price took what we now know is more than one million dollars in private chartered and U.S. military flights, when far less expensive commercial alternatives were easily available.
At an impromptu press conference Friday afternoon, the president praised Price as a “good man,” “a very fine person,” and “a very fine man,” but announced he would be making a decision of Secretary Price’s future.Â
Will Trump fire Price?
“Probably today something will happen,” Trump said. He also said “we’re going to be making a decision sometime tonight.”
“I certainly don’t like the optics,” he told reporters when pressed on details.
As is usual, Trump then pivoted, attacking the Obama administration, saying “they spent a lot of time in the air.”
The issue with travel in the Trump administration is not how much time his cabinet officials are flying, but that they are choosing to fly private charters at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars per flight, as opposed to several hundred dollars flying commercially. Obama officials by all reports almost always flew commercially, and coach – not first class.
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